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Powell, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34601. The Survey maps it on the Masaryktown quadrangle.

Powell within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Powell, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Powell, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Powell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 852 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance62
Equipment and vehicle use39
Debris and open burning36
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/MARTHA PILE FIRE/0866
7 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRAEMERE (27)
9 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNAPLES (27)
8 July 1996Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Powell: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dot Dade City - Mason-Smith MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Wayne Thomas PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2022Thunderstorm WindPowell-Report of a pole barn destroyed, roof damage to a house, and a few large oak trees snapped at the base Vicinity Ayers Road and Culbreath Road.

Every storm recorded in Hernando County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Garden Grove0.9 miles13
Ayers2.2 miles13
South Brooksville3.0 miles16
Tooke Lake Junction3.5 miles16
Wiscon3.8 miles16
Masaryktown3.8 miles13
Brooksville4.8 miles16
Spring Hill5.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289274. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.